West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-10-06

typhoid fever strikes him In the smallest
room on the fourth story OF fifth rate
boarding house, cursng God, and calling for
his mother, and fighting back demons from
his dying pillow, which Is besweated and
torn To rags he plunges out OF tho world
with the shrek OF a destroyed spirit. Alas
for that kind OF funl IL Is remorse IL Is de-
spair. IL Is blackness Of blackness. IL Is woe
amending and long reverberating, and crush
ing as though all the mountains Of all
continents roll on him in one avalanche.
My soul, stand back from such fun.
Young man, there Is no fun in ship
wrecking your character, no fun In dis
grazing your fathers name. There Is no
fun in breaking your mothers heart There Is
no fun I'm the physical pangs Of the dissolute.
There Is no fun in the prohigates death bed.
There is no fun in an undone eternity.
Paracelsus, out of the ashes OF a burnt rose.
said he could recreate the rose, but he failed
in the alchemic undertaking, and roseate life
once burned down In sin can never again be
made TO blossom.
Oh, this plumb line OF the everlasting right
God will throw IL over all our lives 20 show
US our moral detiections. God will throw il
over all churches 20 show whether they are
doing useful work or are standing instances
Ct idleness aud pretense. He will throw that
plumb line over all nations 10 demonstrate
whether their lives are just or cruel their
rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or
infamous He threw that plumb line over
the Spanish monarchy OF other DAYS, and
what became Of heri Ask tho splintered
hulks of her overthrown armada He threw
that plumb line over French Imperialism,
and what was the RESULT Ask the ruins of
her Tuieries, and the fallen column of the
Place Vendome and the grave trenches of
Sedan, and the blood of revolutions OF differ
emit times rolling through the Champs Elysees.
lie threw that plumb limo over ancient
Rome, and what became of the realm OF the
CRsarsi Ask her war eagles with beak
dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into
the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian
Empire OF a thousand years, tho thrones
Of SemiramiS, and Sardanapalus, and
Shalmaneser, of twenty-seven victorious ex-
petitions, the cities of Phenicia lCneeling to
the scepter, and all the world blanched in the
presence. What became of all the GRANDEUR
Ask the fallen palaces of Khorsabad and the
corpses of her $4,000 soldery slain by the
angel OF the Lord in one night, and the Assyrian
sculptures OF the worlds museums, all that
now remains OF that splendor before which
nations staggered and crouched. God Is now
throwing that plumb line over this American
republic, and IL Is a solemn time with this
nation, and whether we keep His Sabbaths or
dishonor them, whether righteousness or in
EQUITY dominate, whether we are Christian
or infidel, whether we fulfill our mission or
refuse IL, whether we are for God or against
him, will decide whether we shall as a ma
ton go on in higher and higher career or go
down in the same grave where Babylon, and
Nineveh, and Thebes, and Assyria are
but" say you, IL there no nothing buta
plumb line what can any OF US do, for there
Is an old proverb which truthfully declares:
III the best mans faults were written on his
forehead it would make him pull his hat over
his eyes What shall we do when, according
to Isaiah, God shall lay judgment TO the line
and righteousness TO the plummet All,
here Is where the Gospel comes in with a
Saviour's righteousness TO make up for our
deficits. And win 10 ] see hanging on the
wall plumb line / ses also hanging there q
cross. And while the one condemns us the
other saves US, il only we will hold to il.
And here and now you may be set FREQ with
a more glorious liberty than Hampden,
or Sidney, or Kosciusko ever fought for.
Not out Jonler, nor down there, nor up here,
but Just where you are you may get it. The
invalid proprietreSs of wealthy estate in
Scotland visited the continent of Europe to
get rid OF her maladies, and she went TO
Baden Baden and tried those waters, and
went to Carlsbad and tried those waters, and
went to Homburg ani tried those waters, and
instead OF getting better she got worss, and
In despair she said TO n physician: What
shall dor His reply was: Medicine can
do nothing for you. You have one chance
in the waters . OF Pit Keathly Scot
land" ''Is it pd&ibel" she replied. "Why,
those waters are on my own estatal" She re-
turned, and drank of the fountain, and in a
few months completely recovered. Oh sick.
ana diseased, and SHINING AMI dying nearer,
why go trudging all the world over and
seeking here and there relief for your dis.
couraged spirit when close by, and at your
very feet and at the door OF your heart ave
within the very estate of Your own conscious.
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